Awards

As we've been noting, literary awards for graphic novels are becoming more common everywhere, and here's a new one: The 9th Art Award. The prize is a joint venture between Graphic Scotland and the Edinburgh International Book Festival and will be presented this August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The Stumptown Comic Art Awards were handed out Saturday in Portland and via Jen Vaughn's twitter feed and Johanna Draper Carlson here are the...

Okay, I put my hand up: I feel inordinately and stupidly pleased when comics I've loved and enjoyed are nominated for awards, particularly those...

The winners of the 2013 LA Times Book Prizes have been announced and : Sammy Harkham's Everything Together: Collected Stories (PictureBox) won, beating out Alison Bechdel, Leela Corman Spaim Rodriguez and even Chris Ware.

In a note to his fellow retailers giving them Diamond codes for this year's Eisner nominees, Brian Hibbs made a rather interesting discovery: Diamond has only 59% of the 101 individual SKUs in stock.  Meanwhile, Baker & Taylor, the world's biggest book distributor, has 83% of them in stock.

We can't all be winners, folks —we can't even all be nominees. The Eisner Awards nomination always ignite a debate wth one saide or another feeling snubbed and dissed, because the choices are particularly dependent on each year's jury—its makeup can skew this way or that. The 2013 edition skewed towards....well, if you really look at the list it didn't so much skew towards anything as skewing AWAY from superhero comics. But even there, Marvel's Hawkeye TIED with Chris Ware's epochal Building Stories for second most nominations -- I wouldn't exactly call that a superhero snub, would you?

In a year where indie, art and literary comix dominated  Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip's Fatale led the pack with six Eisner nominations, followed by...

Adding to a pile of kudos that you will soon be able to make an actual building from, Chris Ware's great Building Stories has won the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for 2013. Heads or Tails by Lilli Carré (Fantagraphics) and The Understanding Monster—Book One by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) were the honorable mentions. The Prize is presented each year by Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to "the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident."

Judges for the 2013 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning have been announced, a group comprising cartoonists and other artists from Montreal. Nominees were...

Naked honesty: I'm too wiped out from this weekend's MoCCA Festival to write much about it. It was a blast. But here are the...

Awards season rolls on, unstoppable. The Hugos—given to the best in SF—have announced the 2013 nominees and here's the comics category: Best Graphic Story (427...

The 2013 nominees for the Glyph Awards have been announced. The awards honor the best in black-themed comics, and the winners will be announcedat the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) Friday, May 17, 2013 at The African American Museum located at 701 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.